Silman's Complete Endgame Course - Part 10 (1200-1399)

Hey guys It's Dino We are continuing with some more complex stuff in the end game. I'm happy to to move on some more difficult stuff because I'm about 2000 rated right now and it's kind of boring for me to be honest to to do I don't know basic mates, but for you beginners, it's really instructive and I Had to cover it. So That's it moving on uh here we're gonna start with the king and pawn end games Uh, first of all, very basic. We already uh did some some basic, uh king and pawn King and pawn end game, but here we we are expanding So, uh, we're gonna see uh different scenarios where uh Side with with the pawn is winning where it is not winning where where it is draw and so on So in this particular case, it is a draw because it is a rook pawn uh, see, uh white cannot Cannot make a progress even though Uh, he has the position and has everything in place But you can see uh Black just needs to go Back and forth to these two squares and there is no there is no way for For white to get a progress Get any progress here and if we push it's gonna be Stalemate and if we I don't try to Do some tricks There is no there is really no tricks. You can go back and forth, but there is no way Like black just needs to go back and forth So, uh, let's move on on on to another example and Here is the question uh, can can white win if he is The most important thing is for your king to be in front of the pawn And the question is can white win if he's one square up uh in front of the pawn And let's see so The basic answer is that who? Who has the opposition? If white has the opposition then he wins if black has the opposition then it's a draw so Uh, let let me show you first how, uh, if if black has the opposition so now White has to move and then black black just maintains the opposition See and there is no there is no way to uh For black for white king to get around and that's the most important thing to get around this black king and push this pawn because black Is blocking blocking his way? uh with with that with basic opposition and now let me show you, uh what happens if If White has the opposition and now to win this game basically let's say Black has to of course move here or here and then a crucial thing just white is Making progress going going forward let's say if Black goes here. You take your position again And go forward If black tries to go here, you just push the pawn And here it is. It is important not to push this pawn. That's really important because now it's a draw instead of that You take the this opposition And then push the pawn Take a position again, and now it's it's easily winning uh Let's say black tries to do something like this to take diagonal position Let me go back here and then black tries to do some tricky stuff but uh you you don't care about that you just Go up The mistake would be to go here and then again, it's a simple draw Like we we've seen this In the was one of the previous video black just needs to go Up and down and there is no there is no way to for us to make the progress And instead we go here and now it's easy if you go here we take the opposition If he tries to trick us trick us The same way we just make a progress And if he goes here, we just push the pawn And it's really easy Let me show you one more Other time I showed you some side lines, but let me show you the main line say it goes here Take your position Make a progress Take your position Go up If you try something like this here, you cannot lose even if you even even if you allow him to take your position, but of course you have A lot of 10 piece here Maybe here and you just push the pawn So really really easy stuff those so to summarize uh In the case that in this position where where white king is one square up in front of the pawn Then if you have the opposition As white then you win if you don't it's a draw And let me show you the example where uh The white is two Two squares in front of the pawn and in that case actually you always win And let me let me show you and let me uh show you the reason why Because let's say you don't have the opposition and you would say Okay, I don't have the opposition. It's a draw but actually Because you are two two steps or two squares in front of the pawn Then you you win actually because you have this extra tempo And now you have the opposition And you just repeat the same things that I showed you, uh previously Let's say it goes here you go here. You don't have you don't allow this here And all that all that awesome stuff Really easy from here so remember Two squares in front of the pawn. It's always winning and all Beware of some tricks that I showed you in a previous example Where maybe black wants to trick you? Maybe probably you're gonna you're gonna mess up Mess that up a few times, but you're gonna learn learn from from mistakes Okay, let's move on on some. Uh other interesting concepts and that is it is Kind of, uh, funnily called chicken chicken or fox in the chicken soup uh, because let me just put some pawns first and then then, uh, explain And here it is. Uh White move. Yeah, so it is called a fox in the chicken soup Chicken cup actually because Uh in this case fox is a white king and he is gonna go after these chickens and the way he's gonna do it is because he's gonna push this pawn and try to Distract black by this pawn and just run and take these pawns because black has to uh stay here And take this pawn because this this pawn can uh can promote into the queen and then Yeah, let me show you in the example. So b5 King b7 uh king a5 We try to go, uh As as far as we can here to distract To to have more time to go here king a7 We again push the pawn king b7 king b5 uh king b8 And now king c6 now black black takes the opposition and now we we cannot promote this pawn because Uh black has the opposition, but we actually As as I said, we don't need to promote this pawn. This pawn is just to is a diversion And we instead Just uh Just go after these pawns So it's really simple from here We took uh two pawns and now it's really really easy easy to win this endgame So let's go back Basically when you see this and you have extra pawn here you just want to push as far as you can this pawn and when you are When you achieve that Just leave that pawn here and go after these pawns these chickens Okay, let's move on. Let's move on on a few one or two I think uh important concepts concepts too so here So this this scenario is impossible because there is no kings, but let me just illustrate how uh One pawn can kill or freeze two pawns so in this example We play this move. We actually this one pawn, uh froze in in place this two pawns because This pawn cannot move Because we're gonna take or of course, you cannot move to point to space also because we're gonna take on percent Here for some reason it's not allowing me to do that but okay And also And if it if it is a black move it can go here Takes takes and then that pawn is gonna promote And also this pawn, uh also can freeze these two pawns If he goes here, I cannot move it If he goes here, then two pawns are frozen And that's that's really interesting thing thing to remember that That you have that opportunity to freeze this pawns and also for you to avoid avoid if you have two pawns try to avoid this situation because It can cost you the game in the end game So let's let's show. Uh let's show that in uh in example with kings In a I guess real game So, uh Let's see so it's a white move and White can make a really bad mistake And it is to play g4 after which Black can play g5 and these two pawns are frozen and white Black is gonna win easily, let's say plays king b3 and Black just goes after these pawns And here, uh also remember really interesting Uh, it's it's gonna be is it would be would be mistake to go here because white can go here and uh And it's gonna be drawn So it's really important to avoid that And if you take this this pawn, then you're gonna lose the game or maybe not lose but He's gonna promote the queen and you're gonna promote the queen So really important to avoid that and instead you don't go here you go here and now you cannot go here because You take and you take this pawn, too And with this move you win the game because you go here Take this pawn take this pawn and You promote this pawn really really easily Instead of that white should have should have just played this move and he It's gonna By this move, he's gonna win by this this way g4 uh, let's say king, uh So king e4 And now we play uh h5 And that's it And it's a draw So really really interesting how even even Despite black having this pawn and using that fox, uh Fox in the chicken cup technique that I showed you Because we have these two pawns and we we can make we can make a fast pawn It's a draw because white black cannot go here because we're gonna we're gonna take this pawn and We cannot go here because we're gonna promote he has to go here Actually, he's gonna he's gonna lose this way So he has to take to make a drop Uh, I hope you understand this example I tried to explain explain it As the best the best as I could And I guess that's that's it. That's all the example uh for king and pawn endings So as usual, I hope you uh learn something. It's uh, it's more it's a lot of material I guess But maybe watch it a few times And yeah at the end i'm gonna give you some exercises to practice This new new acquired knowledge That's it for this video Thanks for watching like and subscribe and donate if you can and see you in the next video